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UP police forms SIT to probe cases against Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair -Namita Bajpai

-The New Indian Express

The SIT will be headed by Inspector General (Prisons) Preetinder Singh while IG Amit Verma will be its member, Additional Director General (Law & Order) Prashant Kumar said.

LUCKNOW: In order to probe into half a dozen cases registered against Alt News Co-founder Mohammad Zubair in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, the state government has set up a special investigation team (SIT) headed by Inspector General of Police (IG) Dr Preetinder Singh. The other member of the team is Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Amit Verma.

According to the Additional Director General of Police (ADG) (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar, the SIT chief, presently posted at the department of prisons administration and reform, would select three other members, including an Additional SP, a Deputy SP and an inspector, to assist him in the investigation.

Dr Preetinder Singh is a 2004-batch IPS officer while Verma, who is a 2008-batch IPS officer, is presently posted at UP Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) department. 

ADG (Law and order) claimed that SIT would be free to take assistance of police of respective districts where the case was lodged against the journalist. He said that the local police would hand over all documents related to the case against Zubair to the SIT.

Kumar said that SIT was set up to ensure an impartial and transparent probe in all six cases lodged against Zubair. 

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